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Music through the History of Human Societies
Through this course you will be presented a number of additional points of contact with the phenomenon of music through the observation of human history. The aim of these courses is not to present a series of historical events as orderly knowledge, but to understand how we relate to this knowledge; both as people and as musicians.
From a musical point of view, this historical observation will focus on the parallel level of folk musical traditions and how they evolved in the course and evolution of man and human societies. Oral folk music continues to play a crucial role in human musical expression in most of global humanity. Under certain conditions we can consider that this kind of music, as we know it today, is the end of a colorful thread that unfolds in the depths of the past. Even if in some cases some parts of this thread have been cut, in a general observation we realize that there is a clear temporal and historical continuity.